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Even More Mythic Gaiman Coming Soon to DVD & Blu-Ray… : Read the novel which inspired the  Daredevil  Jessica Jones Starz show! FIC GAIMAN, N.  The Dark Tower  Luke Cage  The Defenders  Westworld : Fat Charlie copes with the complicated legacy—and death?—of his father, Mr. Nancy…also known as Anansi. (More) Writers of Urban Fantasy FIC GAIMAN, N.  Ilona Andrews  Jim Hines : In this short story collection, you’ll  Ben Aaronovich  Nalo Hopkinson meet many creatures weird and wonderful— American  Elizabeth Bear  Kij Johnson including three stories set in the same universe as   American Gods. FIC GAIMAN, N. Paolo Bacigalupi Seanan McGuire  Roberto Bolaño  Silvia Moreno-Garcia : Bod is totally normal...except  Patricia Briggs  he’s been raised by the denizens of the graveyard.  Jordanna Max Brodsky  Daniel José Older FIC GAIMAN, N.  Jim Butcher  Helen Oyeyemi gods  Thoraiya Dyer  Terry Pratchett : When Richard is pulled into  Max Gladstone  Jeff VanderMeer the other London and into the battle for  Joanne Harris  and many more! Neverwhere’s survival, his life changes forever. FIC GAIMAN, N. Stay in Touch! : Step into a world of gods, giants, and world’s end in this novel retelling Norse myths!  website http://www.neilgaiman.com/ FIC GAIMAN, N.  Blog http://journal.neilgaiman.com/

 Twitter https://twitter.com/neilhimself The Ocean at the End of the Lane: Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, raised by a vio-  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/neilgaiman/ lent death more than 40 years ago...and the only Starz’ American Gods defense is the three women who live at the end of  Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmericanGodsSTZ the lane. FIC GAIMAN, N.  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ AmericanGodsSTARZ/ Sandman series: Follow the adventures of Morphe-  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americangodsstz/ us, the God of Sleep, as he travels between his land  Tumblr: https://www.starz.com/series/americangods/ and our world in this graphic novel series. The first featured book is Preludes & Nocturnes. YA GN GAI  STARZ website https://www.starz.com/series/ americangods/featured The Sleeper and the Spindle: On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to free a sleeping princess and save a cursed kingdom. Homewood Public Library YA FIC GAI Myth & legend The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World

Mythology and Legend by Andrew Mercatante: Delve into some of the myths and legends from around Images from SWAN & .com the world that Gaiman used for Wordcloud created using http://www.wordclouds.com/ American Gods! 291.31 MER. CAh 10.17 Homewood Public Library Mythology by Edith Hamilton is a classic introduc- tion to Greek and Roman myth, with a few forays into Norse mythology. CLASSIC M. Find tales of gods & demons here...then check the flap for some more mythic Gaiman, the back for even more! Gods, Demons, & The Weird The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison: As the world trembles The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss: Kvothe, Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed: A with violence and horror, Essun searches for her kid- hero and villain of a thousand tales, tells his own doctor, a warrior, and a Protector of the Band napped daughter. FIC JEMISON, N. story. FIC ROTHFUSS, P. must work together to save their world. FIC AHMED, S. The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemison: When con- Bone Gap by Laura Ruby: Finn was the spiracy blooms in his ancient city, Ehiru only one who saw Roza be abducted. The Waking Land by Callie Bates: Years after she must protect the woman he was sent to Despite bullies—and an inability to was taken as a hostage following her father’s re- kill—or watch the city be destroyed. distinguish between faces—he sets out bellion, Eleanna returns home a fugitive, grappling FIC JEMISON, N. to find her. YA FIC RUB with powerful new magic. FIC BATES, C. by Guy Gavriel Kay: The cathedral of Saint- The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater: Blue, fated to Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo: Kaz’s Saveur in Aix-en-Provence is very much alive...and it’s kill her true love, joins forces with four young reckless crew—and one impossible heist—may be calling to Ned. FIC KAY, G. men as they search for a Welsh god hidden some- all that stands between the world and destruction. where in the Virginia countryside. YA FIC STI YA FIC BAR The Changeling by Victor LaValle: Emma com- mits a horrifying act, then disappears into thin air, leav- An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir: Laia is a The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly ing Apollo to track a wife and a child who are unlike slave—and a rebel. Elias is the Academy’s finest Black: In a town where fae and humans live side anything he could ever have imagined deep into a soldier—and he hates it. Together, they will by side, a horned boy awakes. As the fae come out world that is, and is not, his own. FIC LAVALLE, V. change the Martial Empire itself. YA FIC TAH from the woods, the world will need a hero…. YA FIC BLA The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu: After they overthrow the Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor: Empire, two friends find themselves leading very After a war between gods and men, a hero, a li- Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill: After a different factions…. FIC LIU, K. brarian, and a girl must battle the fantastical ele- childhood in another world, Ewan and Colby are ments of a mysterious city stripped of its name. back—but in a world where monsters lurk in the Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord: The YA FIC TAY shadows, there is no outrunning fate. djombi’s gift gives Paama the power to FIC CARGILL, C. manipulate the forces of the universe...but one djombi Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson: When hacker doesn’t agree with the gifting. FIC LORD, K. Alif discovers the secret book of the djinn, he’s Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova: After a curse suddenly running from more than the violent When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie backfires, Alex must travel to a land as dark as Hand, head of state security...and for the first time, McLemore: The Bonner sisters want the roses that Limbo and as strange as Wonderland to find her Alif’s got allies. FIC WILSON, G. grow from Miel’s skin, and they’re willing to do any- family. YA FIC COR thing to get them…. YA FIC MCL

Gods, Demons & the weird On Screen Greenmantle by Charles De Lint: In an ancient wood Kraken by China Miéville: Billy Harrow  Game of Thrones: Step into the twisted politics and nonstop near the city, Mystery walks, chased by the hunt inadvertently learns that he holds the key to finding a action of Westeros! DVD-TV GAM and trailed by the wild girl. FIC DELINT, C. missing giant squid...that just happens to be an  Penny Dreadful takes old tales and makes them new...and

embryonic god. FIC MIEVILLE, C. even darker. DVD-TV PEN The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue:  Preacher: A possessed minister teams up with his ex and a The story of a pair of changelings—the stolen Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older: When the murals in hard-drinking Irish vampire to find God. DVD-TV PRE child, and the replacement. FIC DONOHUE, K. Sierra’s Brooklyn neighborhood start changing, she  Sleepy Hollow: Old demons walk again in the town of Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly: As learns she is a shadowshaper—and must battle an evil Sleepy Hollow…. DVD-TV SLE nightclub marquees yield to a fascist anthropologist for the lives of her friends and family.  Wonder Woman: Diana, Princess of the Amazons, fights revolution, three will struggle to survive using YA FIC OLD Ares during WWI….DVD WON whatever means—and people—necessary. FIC DONNELLY, L. The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi: Jess was thrilled when she met Tilly-Tilly. But as Tilly-Tilly’s visits be- Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys: Aphra Marsh, come more disturbing, Jess realizes she knows nothing one of two survivors of the destruction of Devil’s about the other girl….FIC OYEYEMI, H. Homewood Public Library Reef, must brave the scraps of her past to help face down rising human evil. FIC EMRYS, R. 